Steamboat Springs is known as ski town USA and has many things that distinguish it from anywhere else in the world. I am not personally from Steamboat, but have enough friends that are to help me write this article. Here are 38 things you will know if you are from Steamboat Springs Colorado!

1. There is a high chance that one of your neighbors is an olympian.

2. You are too prideful about the fact that one of your neighbors is an olympian.

3. The FM Light and Sons signs trick the tourists into thinking they are close to Steamboat, but the locals know that there's still a long way to go.

4. You spent your summers hanging out by the C-Hole.

5. "Meet at the bank parking lot?" Only the real locals know what this means.

6. When your class schedule is built around what kind of skiing you participate in.

7. Laughing at all of the animal furs and matching t-shirts during Texas Week.

8. Getting 3 feet of snow in 3 minutes and not expecting a snow day but skipping school anyway.

9. Complaining about the "bad traffic" when it takes you 5 minutes longer to get somewhere.

10. When the only lockdown was because of a wild animal outside.

11. When you remember the one snow day you ever had because the busses wouldn't start due to the frightening -50 degree weather.

12. The only towns around you consist of 200 people or less.

13. Hating Craig. Enough said.

14. Driving over an hour to find a place to party in the woods.

15. Planning your entire Halloween costume around your winter jacket.

16. Getting up to the mountain at 1pm because you are locals and you can.

17. Trick or treating down Lincoln Ave.

18. When your hometown has its own holiday, Winter Carnival. (Don't we all have a crush on the lighted man?)

19. Knowing everything about everyone. Secrets do not exist here.

20. When it is impossible to go to the grocery store without running into everyone you know.

21. The only celebrities that actually come to Steamboat are Duck Dynasty and Luke Bryant.

22. Having Mrs. Conlon has been feared by everyone for forever.

23. When people find out where you are from, they immediately ask if you know how to ski. And of course, you know how to ski. Who are you?

24. Larry The Camel.

25. There's a good chance that someone you go to college with was in your preschool class as well.

26. Accepting the fact that football is not our thing. But skiing is!

27. After Prom is better than the actual prom. Shoutout to the lucky few who got to get hypnotized.

28. Teachers skit during homecoming week.

29. Pio workouts are the bane of your existence.

30. For those of us who played soccer, shoutout to the Dj during night soccer at the Steamboat Soccer Camp. How else would we all know how to do the Chicken Dance?

31. When tourists think someone farted but you know it's just to local sulfur spring that plagues your beautiful hometown.

32. It is a good night if you end up at Wal-Mart.

33. When you see the berries and cherries at The Mound, you know you will be spending the next 3 hours in the woods.

34. The only lazy day of your summer was spent tubing down the Yampa River.

35. Watching the 4th of July fireworks from Howelsen every year.

36. Building snow sculptures was the best reason to skip school.

37. Bringing food skiing to feed the birds on Morningside.

38. And lastly, feeling blessed because you grew up in one of the most beautiful places in the whole world with the best people.

Special thanks to Eliza Leeson, Nathan Depuy, Mariah Hoots, Megan Williams, Hanna Haggarty, Norma Techarukpong, Charlie Schmidt, Hector Lopez, and Jordan Frye.